This blog explores a family history search. It addresses genealogy, Jewish heritage travel and artwork. It has taken the author to Belarus, the Ukraine and Poland where she visited her ancestral towns as well as Lithuania where she studied Yiddish at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute. As the author is both an artist and a genealogist, the blog also addresses her artwork related to her family and cultural history.

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

So Many Books!

In a recent post I discussed the wonderful session at the IAJGS conference on literature that can help to inform your genealogy search. In addition to those books that were discussed in the session and the prior post, we were given an extensive list of titles. Some were recommended by the session leaders, others were recommended by many of those who attended the session. I have a pretty extensive list of my own, many of which have been discussed in this blog. I've combined my list with the list from the session and you can download it from my website as well as peruse blog articles on genealogy topics. The books cover family searches, life in Eastern Europe, the immigrant experience, the Holocaust or the Jewish experience and span both fiction and nonfiction. If you would like to read the reviews of many of these books on my blog, input "recommended reading" in the search box.

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Welcome to this blog. In these pages I address the issues that are of deep interest to me. I take you on my travels to Eastern Europe, my observations about the former and present Jewish communities in those countries and the response of those countries to their history. I capture this in both words and artwork and frequently share my artwork in these pages. In addition I address my genealogy research based on family who originated in many of the places I explore. This has been a process of discovery for me and I invite you to join me on this journey.

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About Me

Susan Weinberg both researches and paints family, cultural and community history. Her family history interests and travel frequently inform her artwork.
Susan traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania where she studied Yiddish at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and developed a series of artwork on how Lithuania deals with its Holocaust history. She has traveled to her ancestral towns where she did research in the archives. Susan has created Kehila links (websites on ancestral towns) for Dunilovichi, Belarus and Radom, Poland. Out of this research she developed a series of artwork on the pre-war Jewish community from which her family came.
Susan has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. Her current body of work is the Jewish Identity and Legacy project, a project which includes oral history and art creation. Based in Minneapolis-St Paul, Susan creates artwork and does genealogy consulting. She speaks frequently on her artwork and genealogy topics. She maintains two blogs, Layers of the Onion with a family history and art focus and Creative Connections.on the Minneapolis Jewish Artists' Lab.